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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JCHuntington, post: 2708430, member: 86680&quot;]I started collecting all varieties of Asian coins about 1957 with a few oddments and sputtered along at opportunistic collecting until about 1985 when I turned to my academic career&#039;s demands. I picked numismatics up again with an interest in the Greater Indic region. On retirement in 2014 I returned to my numismatic interests again and am still flailing away at it. My areas are always pre-modern with one exception (Tibet). The greatest strengths are: Ancient India (mostly punch-marked ca, 600-300 BCE) China (everything up to about 1900) Nepal (mostly Licchavi and Malla periods) and Greater Gandhara-Taxila (mostly pre Kushan). There is one &quot;draft&quot; of a publication on Kushan Numismatic Iconography (Available at:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/13549386/Kushan_Numismatic_Iconography_Preliminary_Study_" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/13549386/Kushan_Numismatic_Iconography_Preliminary_Study_" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/13549386/Kushan_Numismatic_Iconography_Preliminary_Study_</a> )&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Regrettably, I do not own any of the beautiful gold coins published in the study.</p><p><br /></p><p>Current Numismatic activities,</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Cataloging the entire collection (2-3K coins), </p><p>2) Researching the historical context of Indian punch marked and their iconological symbolism.&nbsp; For the Glutton for academic punishment: <a href="https://www.academia.edu/13631948/The_Vajra_from_Vedic_times_to_the_Present" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/13631948/The_Vajra_from_Vedic_times_to_the_Present" rel="nofollow">https://www.academia.edu/13631948/The_Vajra_from_Vedic_times_to_the_Present</a></p><p>3) Photographing numismatic material (mostly my own) (see attached image of a Tang dynasty Qian Yuan zhong bao [Hartill 14.101] showing minor granular azurite </p><p>corrosion</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]610976[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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